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...particularly object to chrome and wild colors," says Alexander P. Gest Jr., president of the small Mitchel Oil Corp. in Mamaroneck, N.Y. "But the thing I can't stand is that you can't tell the present-day cars apart. They all look alike. I honestly can't tell a Plymouth from a Cadillac when they go by fast...
After five years of waiting, the U.S. oil industry finally got a lower court verdict on suits brought against three of its big gest companies by the Government. The defendants: Jersey Standard, Socony-Mobil, Caltex (owned jointly by the Texas Co. and Standard of California) and six subsidiaries. The charge: price-gouging to the tune of $111.5 million on Middle East oil supplied to Europe under Marshall Plan financing. Between 1949 and 1952, the Government charged, the companies sold oil to the Economic Cooperation Administration...
Taking a long leap into a hypothetical future, Dr. Sabin foresaw a day when babies will have their throats swabbed with his vaccine before they are six months old, while they are still protected by inherited antibodies. Or, others sug gest, people of any age could get tem porary immunity from a single Salk shot then parlay it into virtual lifetime immunity with a Sabin swab...
...stone text of a Confucian doctrine dated 745 A.D., with a commentary by the Emperor Hsiüan-Tsung; a Tibetan book written in pure gold; a 600 A.D. scroll found in the caves of northwest China with the original hemp wrapper signed by the woman who wove it. Gest impoverished himself supplying funds for Gillis, who had resigned his commission to devote full time to the collection. Gillis collected a library of Bibles written in 25 dialects, 20,000 books from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), 500 volumes on Chinese medicine-the largest Oriental collection in the Western world...
...Gest sold his collection in 1937 to the Institute for Advanced Study, but he and Gillis kept an advisory interest in it until both died in 1948. Their library is now under the supervision of Chinese Scholar Hu Shih, onetime Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. and dean of National Peking University, who shows research scholars how to use its treasures. Dr. Hu will not guess at the library's monetary or cultural value. When asked, he simply says...